JC Lee
JC Lee (they/she) is a teaching professor at the University of Pittsburgh's Department of English.
Education and Career
Lee graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1990 with a BA in Political Science and Women's Studies. They later received an MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Pittsburgh in 1999.[1] In 2001, Lee started as a Graduate Student Teaching Practicum Director and Faculty Advisor for Collision: A Journey of Literary Nonfiction.
While they are still a Faculty Advisor for Collision, they now teach undergraduate-level courses as well. These courses include Topics in Creative Writing: Environmental Writing, Topics in Creative Writing: Writing the Body, Art of the Essay, Introduction to Journalism & Nonfiction, and Senior Seminar in Nonfiction, among others.[2] A returning student themself, Lee is drawn to working with nontraditional students, exemplified through their involvement with the Pitt Prison Education Project. [3]
University, Department, and Community Services
Lee was a member on the Senate Budget Policies Committee from 2018 to 2020 before advising the University of Pittsburgh Chancellor's Distinguished Award in 2020. They also worked as a Faculty Advisor for the University of Pittsburgh's Brackenridge Fellowship in 2018, 2020, and 2024. More recently, Lee sat on the University of Pittsburgh's University Review Board from 2021 to 2022 and was a Faculty Advisor for the SURA Fellowship in 2023.
In addition to University service, they have also been involved with Departmental Services as well. Specifically, in addition to acting as a Faculty Advisor for Collision since 2001, they were involved on the Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series Committee from 2017 to 2018, the Writing Program Awards Committee from 2022 to 2024, and have been on the Faculty Mentoring Committee beginning in 2020.
Lee has also been involved in a number of Community Workshops as well. In the Fall of 2021, they completed a Free Association Reading Series for the City of Asylum.
Essays
Lee has written a number of essays, such as Christopher Hitchens and the Press as Opposition, featured in Critical Quarterly in 2023, Mother River, featured in VQR in 2023,[4] and Fever, featured in Hotel Amerika Volume 17 in 2018. In 2017, they wrote Abattoir Blues, featured in Jelly Bucket, and in 2009 they wrote Saint Nathan, featured in Critical Quarterly. In 2007, during Lee's early career, they wrote Biography of a House,[5] featured in Critical Quarterly, and Hawk, Vulture, Heron, Owl, featured in Pocket Myths #4: The Odyssey.
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- ↑ "Jennifer Lee". UNION OF PITT FACULTY. Retrieved 2026-05-04.
- ↑ "Draft:JC Lee", Wikipedia, 2026-05-03, retrieved 2026-05-04
- ↑ "Request Rejected". www.ppep.pitt.edu. Retrieved 2026-05-04.
- ↑ "J. C. Lee | VQR". www.vqronline.org. Retrieved 2026-05-04.
- ↑ Lee, J. C. (2007-04). "Biography of a House". Critical Quarterly. 49 (1): 104–110. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8705.2007.00752.x. ISSN 0011-1562. Check date values in:
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